Generally a thought experiment is a way of backing a story onto a desired conclusion. Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist has that science fiction flavor which philosophers love. It is in every respect a disanalogy, which exploded though it be continues to fascinate.
Actually, if you want to grasp the sort of thinking that is behind the fact of abortion Elizabeth Harman precisely describes its recourse to magic. Like the pro-life people who never stop talking about the unborn child she recognizes that the intention of abortion, what it is aimed at, is the child that will be born and will demand care. It’s a causal thing - if you want a cold beer you will have to open the door of the fridge to take it. Focusing on just the opening part is pointless, it’s the chilled tin that is the point. Elizabeth Harman in her Calvinist predestinarian way, similar to the ‘I shall have already been saved’ doctrine, holds that being pregnant , really pregnant, is to expect a child that you hope to bring to term. In the event that you abort then her view is that one shall never have had been pregnant. It was not a pregnancy just a condition that needed medical attention. James Franco I feel your bafflement.
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